Examples

She clicked on another subscreen and a rougher, greyer, wide-angled image emerged of a girl—the same girl, if you looked hard enough—walking up the road towards the camera, swinging her handbag by its long straps.

He just had time to read the two-word message “hacked off” before the media player launched a black subscreen which stalled for a moment, then ran some good-quality CCTV footage of two people, a man and a woman, approaching each other on the street, stopping to chat, then climbing into an open-top sports car.

And when I think about them touring their outdoor school at Vasona Park this Wedensday and saying goodbye to their creek and their grouptime tree and their ball field and their snack and art tables and their bridge and their parking lot where they have all been playing Star Wars and picking flowers and chasing each other around with their backbacks on while us moms try to apply that last bit of subscreen.